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Buddhism Quotes by Frederick Lenz
- Buddhism teaches us not to want things, not to avoid things, not to be upset by the loss. In the I Ching, there's a hexagram…
- Life is endless reality. There is reality after reality, spinning on endlessly into the cosmos, billions and billions of manifest universes. Underlying all of this…
- In different lifetimes, you incarnate in different dimensional planes, let alone in different universes in the physical universe.
- This is only a small part of the totality. From this island earth we see only a fragment of creation and its knowledge.
- Beyond this world there are myriad worlds, thousands of inter-dimensional planes with different types of beings going through other cycles of existence. Beyond all beings…
- There is the physical world that we live in, which we perceive through the senses, but there are other worlds. Right in front of you…
- The quality of time actually changes throughout the day and night. Some dimensions are more time-specific, in that they only interact with the physical dimension…
- During the late afternoon and early evening there is a specific dimension that interconnects with our physical world. This particular dimension can be visualized as…
- Eternity manifests itself in endless ways on endless planes of existence that they call lokas, other dimensions...worlds within worlds.
- Unhappiness is really an incorrect way of seeing. When we are unhappy we don't see life as it really is. We are in a condition…
- Consistency is nice, I think, personally. I like to be consistently happy. I like to be consistently more aware and more conscious of the truth.
- Discrimination means keeping the negative and unhappy thoughts away and allowing the pretty thoughts to come inside you.
- You must constantly check that you are meditating properly, and not become, what Clint Eastwood refers to as, "a legend in your own mind."
- Don't just sit there. Go do something and don't expect that it's going to be fun unless you make it fun. You have got to…
- Happiness is something that you don't postpone. If you are postponing happiness - it is something you will probably never experience much of.
- The worst thing you can do is to sit and brood and feel sorry for yourself. Nor should you feel wrong about doing this, since…
- The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work.
- To occupy yourself with tasks that are useful to yourself and others, you can get your mind off your problems.
- Take a yoga class, study different forms of self-discovery. Some people are crazy and fanatical, avoid them. People who are balanced and calm and introspective,…
- Walk in nature. Take the time to be still. Practicing arts, arranging flowers, doing some drawing, working on a computer, brings a sense of stillness…
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- Forget that you are anybody and just perform the activities around you. Look at them. Watch what you are doing, my God!… — Frederick Lenz
- I have seen people who practice yoga and Buddhism who are scared to death of the sorcery powers of others. This is… — Frederick Lenz
- Happiness is found principally in meditation. Let your mind flow out into eternity. You have to exert some effort. Then you will… — Frederick Lenz
- Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with… — Frederick Lenz